New gardening idea: Cocktail gardens

One of my coworkers emailed me earlier this week to give me a heads-up about a story we would be running in the paper soon. She thought I would like it.

According to this story, cocktail gardens are a new hot trending gardening.

I was instantly obsessed with this idea. She knows me well.

I love gardening, I love edible gardens and I love cocktails. So what’s not to, well, love?

Ahem. Sorry. I’m getting carried away.

Still, I think a cocktail garden would be fabulous. And, of course, anything you would plant for cocktails could have many other uses.

Some ideas come to mind right away:

Mint

Basil

Celery

Cucumbers

Strawberries (any berries, really)

There’s even a cocktail starter kit from Territorial Seed Company in Oregon. They are sold out, which maybe gives weight to the contention that cocktail gardens are a new trend. The kit comes with Amy Stewart’s book, “The Drunken Botanist,” which I put on hold at the library as soon as I heard it existed.